A desperate letter from a remote imperial outpost receives a less than sympathetic reception in certain quarters in the imperial heartland
Justin Raimundo
24th July, 2009
An “open letter” from the ghosts of the cold war begs for an appropriate response
With the end of the cold war, and the implosion of the Soviet empire, one would have thought the entanglements engendered by half a century of US-Russian hostility would have ended. One would, unfortunately, be quite wrong. It wasn’t enough that we nurtured and emboldened the resistance movements in Central and Eastern Europe: it wasn’t enough that we helped the newly-freed “captive nations” throw off their chains, and enter the international scene as fully-fledged political and economic entities – oh no. There was more to come.
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